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Comic Critics #148!

Here is the latest installment of the Comic Critics strip, courtesy of Sean Whitmore (writer) and Brandon Hanvey (artist)! You can check out the first hundred and forty-seven strips at the archive here and you can read more about Sean and Brandon at the Comic Critics blog.

30 Comments

dunbar

I don’t get it, I mean, it just wasn’t funny, I mean, it was at least one or two or three or four or five or six or so panels too long. I already hate the next one cuz you know it won’t be any good. Really, who needs to read it beforehand to judge it?

bad_trotsky

Switch panels one and three; the last quarter of panel five should be rotated seventy three degrees and placed between panels six and seven, and the punchline should be written in Sanskrit. Just sayin’.

Hrm, Marissa believes she’s ten pounds away from being Catwoman. I’m not sure if that’s a healthy self image or a destructive one.

I’m flashing back to that Onion article, “Female Fan Has Inflated Opinion Of Own Attractiveness”. (IIRC). Marissa being a fairly pretty woman who associates with a largely male and romantically stigmatized population (even if she sets herself in different fandoms than superheroes, having a different fandom still makes her more relatable than women who aren’t fans period) probably gets her a lot of attention, which skews her self-perception.

AS

Last panel needs to stay in this one, ending with “Ten?” would have been too weak.
The last two panels could have been combined though…”Ten?” “Nolan’s movies are supposed to be realistic!” “Not that realistic.” all in one panel.

dnwilliams

chad

if Josh was smart he would quickly before Marrissa winds up killing him for his little jab at her joke about being catwoman. and love the how josh just said what a lot of fan boys are thinking about ann and zacks pick for supes in his own way.

Stephane Savoie

Wait… a fat joke? The punch line to this comic-humour strip is a generic fat joke?
Weak.

(Ok, you could argue that it’s a comic joke vis Nolan’s Batman, but I’m still put off by the reinforcing of stereotypes in this strip. We haven’t seen any sign of Josh’s making this kind of joke before, so it’s disappointing.)

Wally Strong

“(Ok, you could argue that it’s a comic joke vis Nolan’s Batman, but I’m still put off by the reinforcing of stereotypes in this strip. We haven’t seen any sign of Josh’s making this kind of joke before, so it’s disappointing.) ”

Alternately, you could say that with the overall tone of the series so often having Marissa The Cool Indy Comics Fan look down upon Josh The Nerdy Superhero Comics Fan, the latter is entitled to at least one cheap shot.

funkygreenjerusalem

A long time ago, i complained about this strip for criticizing a DC comic that wasn´t out yet. The creator said that he had every right to do so.

Yup.
There’s no difference between a comedy strip making fun of something yet to come up, and articles/message board threads having fierce debates about something that hasn’t happened.
None at all.
Not even if you point out one of them is a comedy again.